ABSENTEEISM OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH RESPECT TO THEIR TEACHING EXPERIENCE

In the wake of Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization (LPG) educational systems across the globe are re-designing and transforming in both aspects of content as well as context in making education more relevant and competitive to enable to appropriate into the global environment.With the explosion of information and global competitiveness, the nature of teaching and learning is rapidly changing in order to remain relevant, competitive and be informed to the current dispensation.The destiny of the nation is being shaped in the classroom is not rhetoric.It focuses on the essential role; the teaching community is expected to play in making education qualitative.Education is a bed-rock to any nation's development either socially, economically or politically.Absenteeism has been a major human relations problem, irrespective of government and private organizations across the globe.Consequently, it has a detrimental effect on their productivity and performance (Barmase & Shukla, 2013).Comparatively, public schools are affected drastically than private schools in terms of absenteeism of teachers in providing quality education to learners.The problem of S. Balamurugan https://